Nature Quote by John Steinbeck

“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked. Otherwise you took it for granted.”

— Nathan Lowell

“I sensed that almost all of them knew they didn't have much more time on earth. Maybe this accounted for their willingness to pitch…

— Walter Kirn

“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I’d figured out that it wasn’t just about food and shelter. Obviously, that was important, but it was the people that I met, the…

— Melody J. Bremen

“I think places take hold of us and we become mere parts of the landscape, taking on its quirks and follies.”

— Ali Shaw

“He thought moving to a small town would allow him to find a way to get along to some extent but people were just…

— Christine Feehan

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Maybe the heartland isn't just the place in the middle of the country; maybe it's also the place in the middle of your chest.”

— Vicki Myron

“I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more and more frequently, I was watching people who didn't…

— Krzysztof Kieślowski

“Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust…

— Lev Grossman

“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make…

— Aaron Lauritsen

“There’s so much earth everywhere. It’s like all the people migrated to these pockets of lights and noise, and they left all these miles…

— Akemi Dawn Bowman